Converting Debian 7 ESXi 4.1 to 2012R2 host :

Hi,
I'm trying to convert Debian 7 VM to hyper-v using MVMC 2.1. In GUI wizard on Virtual Machine section, under Operating System there is shown Other Linux (x64) instead of Debian 7. Debian version 5 is show correct (for olders dis. VM), as Debian GNU/Linux
5 (x64). I suppose that is reason for Warning on Summary screen in Wizard :
Warning (s):
1. The operating system of the VMWare VM is NOT SUPPORTED. This does not prevent conversion, but no support is provided for this conversion.
The tool is running on target Hyper-V 2012R2 host with .NET 4,5 installed along with Visual C++ Redist 2012 update.
After continuing conversion (ignorring the warning above), conversion stops after sucessfuly snapshot creation on ESXi host with following error :
"One or more errors occurred. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.ScxSshWrapper_x86.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found."
I also reboot Hyper-V host but same error appears every time .
Thnx.
Update#1: I have to install both x64 and x86 Visual Studio Redist 2012 Update 4 to avoid stop error on .dll. The main warning (VM not supported stays).
Now I have new problem, during Uninstall Tools step conversion stops with message: Host does not Exist. When open error log: there is :
VERBOSE:   Attempting to establish an SSH connection.
07/23/2014 17:06:56 +02:00 [3] VERBOSE:   Finished creating snapshot of the source virtual machine
07/23/2014 17:06:59 +02:00 [3] DEBUG:   Caught ManagedSshFacadeException trying to open SSH connection: ErrorCode=0xC0040202, Message=Host does not exist
07/23/2014 17:07:04 +02:00 [3] VERBOSE:   System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Microsoft.Accelerators.Mvmc.ScxSshCommon.ManagedSshFacadeException: Host does not exist
Update#2: Host unknown error was because Debian wasn't in internal DNS of Hyper-V host, after adding Linux to DNS error went away (it seems to use DNS name to establish SSH connection). However after that I received errors in same "Uninstall Tools"
step about connection rejected because of too many failures for root account... I saw that in the "Connection Step" of wizard I was unable to enter Password for Root account for selected VM, (I don't know is that by design for Linux VM's). So I beleive
that error is reffering to that stage of setup. Anyhow I decided to manually remove VM Tools , shutdown VM and convert VM in offline mode. Now VM is working on Hyper-V, and I hope that this few hours of troubleshooting will help someone. After all there
are still some questions :
1. Why Warning : 1. The operating system of the VMWare VM is NOT SUPPORTED - is displayed for Debian 7 which is on supported list of guest OS
2. Why online conversion didn't work, and why password for root account in VM (under Connection portion of wizard) could not be entered.
If anyone have answers to above question please share your knowledge.
Regards,

MVMC 3.0 did not include any new features for Linux so I doubt the results will be different. We did add support for RHEL 7, CentOS 7 and Oracle 7.
For your questions:
1 - Since VMWare does not have a specific choice for Deb 7, newer versions may by now, we throw the warning as we cannot determine what version of Linux you are trying to convert when you select [Other Linux X64]. Deb 7 is supported by MVMC as
we've tested it and know it works. Other Linux distros may work as well that are not supported but they have not been tested.
2 - Most likely you did not have the VMWare VM running when trying to do the online conversion or it could not be resolved in DNS by the vSphere server. When running the MVMC tool did you notice if it had a DNS name associated with it when you selected
it in VMWare?
The MVMC requires the VMWare VM to be in a running state and resolvable in DNS by both the MVMC system and the VMWare vSphere server to verify the root password and remove the VMWare tools. As you have stated, you can remove the VMWare tools manually
and run the MVMC and it will work as well. If you leave the VMWare tools installed and do the conversion we disable the VMWare tools on the Hyper-V VM once booted. They are still there but should not be in a running state and you can remove them if desired
at this point.
Regards,
-Steve

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update-mime-database /usr/share/mime &>/dev/null
post_upgrade() {
post_install
post_remove() {
post_install
Now I've read that just converting debian packages isn't best practice but it seems reasonable here. I also read that you really should only provide PKGBUILD for architectures that you've personally tested on - I only tested on amd64 so should I get rid of the i386 (even though I'm pretty sure it'll work just fine)?
Thanks for any feedback.

Trilby wrote:There are already two (redundant) -git packages in the AUR for rstudio - what's different about this one?
Good question!
rstudio-desktop is built from the sources (not the binaries) but it out of date and I'm not interested in the official release
rstudio-desktop-bin is what I based my PKGBUILD off of. This is using the debian binaries from the official releases to install. These only get updated every so often (not quite often enough for my liking with how quick Rstudio has been adding new features).
rstudio-desktop-git is the git version of rstudio. I can't get this to build at the moment and is a little too unstable for my liking.
Rstudio provides 'preview' releases which offer a decent compromise between stability and getting the newest features. This is what I want to offer. Honestly if you think that this would just clutter the AUR with something that is unnecessary then I don't need to upload it to the AUR but figured that if I was interested in it then somebody else might be as well.
Lone_Wolf wrote:
dasonk wrote:However I feel like I cheated a little because I just modified the PKGBUILD of rstudio-desktop-bin so that it would work with the preview release; this seems sensible to me but I'm not sure if I need to give the maintainer of that package any credit somewhere.this seems sensible to me but I'm not sure if I need to give the maintainer of that package any credit somewhere.
In these cases it's common practice to add them as contributor.
Note that you should put yourself as maintainer.
i386 : you could comment those lines, and add that they may work but haven't been tested.
you should add -bin to the name of the package.
Thanks for the feedback! I changed the name to rstudio-desktop-preview-bin. I added Meow as a contributor and changed myself to be the maintainer. And actually since yesterday they updated the preview release so I upped the version and updated the md5sums. Here is the updated PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: dasonk < dasonk at gmail dot com >
# Contributor: Meow < meow at linux dot cn >
pkgname=rstudio-desktop-preview-bin
pkgver=0.98.792
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A new integrated development environment (IDE) for R (The preview binary from the website)."
arch=('x86_64') # May work for i686 but hasn't been tested
license=('GPL')
url="http://www.rstudio.org/ide/download/preview"
depends=('r>=2.11.1' 'qtwebkit')
conflicts=('rstudio-desktop' 'rstudio-desktop-git' 'rstudio-desktop-bin')
provides=("rstudio-desktop=${pkgver}")
options=(!strip)
#_x86md5=13afc95d4d28198a401863418b5b6113
_x64md5=8e2c6a94bc79f8183600d5a480463f19
case "$CARCH" in
# 'i686')
#_arch=i386
#md5sums=($_x86md5)
'x86_64')
_arch=amd64
md5sums=($_x64md5)
esac
source=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-dailybuilds/rstudio-${pkgver}-${_arch}.deb")
install="$pkgname".install
package() {
msg "Converting debian package..."
cd "$srcdir"
tar zxpf data.tar.gz -C "$pkgdir"
install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
cd "$pkgdir/usr/lib/rstudio/bin"
rm lib*.so.*
cd "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
ln -s -f ../lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio rstudio-bin
Is that how you envisioned me commenting out the i686 stuff? Is there anything glaringly wrong with this? Thanks for the feedback and do you think it would be worth it to upload to AUR or should I just keep this to myself...

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